The GOP lost the midterms and most election since.
In dictatorships, people don't bother voting because the outcome is determined.
Should we persuade people that we are already in a dictatorship?
Stand by for something. . .
We currently have dangerous levels of income inequality.
It's not possible to have a healthy democracy when the income inequality is too great.
In the 1920s and earlier we had similar levels of income inequality.
Returning soldiers who were injured were left to starve. If you were injured in your factory job, you were left to starve.
ceupress.com/book/post-comm…
I might do a thread on the stages of autocracy.
Now, for the people who tell me that things in America have never been this bad. . .
scholar.harvard.edu/levitsky/files…
Consider being a Black man in 1930. Things were pretty bad for a lot of people in the 1920s and 1930s.
Through the hard work of our liberal heroes: MLK, Jr. Thurgood Marshall, etc. etc.
We didn't really have a liberal democracy in this country until after the Civil Rights movement.
Things started changing in 1955 with Brown v. Board.
Sometimes when people inherit something, they feel entitled to it. They don't think they have to work for it.
Nope. Nobody owes us a democracy.
If we want it, we have to work for it, every election, every generation.
Here's my suggested to-do list. I'm sure it can be improved.
terikanefield-blog.com/things-to-do/
I thought we were on an upward slope. I thought democracy would continue expanding and becoming more inclusive.
Adding: Trump wants us to think he's invincible, and he's a good conman.